Middleton's Cynics (Salzburg studies: Jacobean drama studies, #47)
by Charles A. Hallet
"Shakespeare on Love and Lust" looks at the complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works - ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again - and argues that they arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of love, sex and desire requires a sharp eye and a steady hand. In "Shakespeare on Love and Lust", scholar Maurice Charney delves into Shakesp...
Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires
This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference "Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain", held in 2012 as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet). Implementing the concept of culture as a virtual network, it investigates Early modern European drama and its global dissemination. The 12 articles of the volume - all written by experts in the field teaching in the United Ki...
Investigates the drive to create a national theatre as an aspect of the cultural, social and political life of modern Wales, in terms of the struggle to define a national identity in a volatile world. The focus is on ascertaining how a national theatre participates in the creation of the modern European Welsh man or woman.
Die Struktur DES Dramas Bei T.S. Eliot (Salzburg studies: Poetic drama & poetic theory, #38)
by Gerd Schmidt
Hernani (Moliere & Co. French Classics, #1) (Litterature)
by Victor Hugo
Tours de force - Die AEsthetik des Grotesken in der franzoesischen Pantomime des 19. Jahrhunderts
by Joerg Von Brincken
Dieu Et Les Dieux Dans Le Theatre de la Renaissance (Etudes Renaissantes, #2)
A Study of Christopher Marlowe's Tragedy of "Dido Queen of Carthage" (Renaissance Studies, #63)
by Mary Elizabeth Smith
Etudes Sur Moliere: Le Tartuffe (Ed.1877) (Litterature)
by Lacour de la Pijardiere-L
The Social Mode of Restoration Comedy (Routledge Revivals)
by Kathleen M Lynch
Published in 1967: This book is a historical account of comedy during the Restoration period in England. It discusses Comedy from Jonson to Shirley, serious drama in the Reign of Charles I and the period of Etherege.
A New History of Early English Drama
These 25 essays by leading theorists and historians chart a paradigmatic shift within the study of pre-17th-century English drama. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors here explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space. The essays are organized into three sections: "Early English Drama and Physical Space" examines the settings in which the plays are acted; "Early English Drama and Social Sp...
The Theatre of Marie Jones (Carysfort Press Ltd.)
Marie Jones is one of the most prolific and popular writers working in Northern Irish theatre today. Her work has achieved local relevance and international recognition. In the course of a remarkable career now spanning five decades, Jones has been an actor, playwright, and screenwriter; she also helped to establish two major Irish theatre companies (Charabanc and DubbelJoint) as well as playing a major role in theatre-in-education through her plays for Replay Productions. From her earliest work...
Oeuvres de Moliere. Tome 7. Les Femmes Savantes. La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas (Litterature)
by Moliere
Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics
by Associate Professor English Department Hugh Grady